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2017 Annual Report Together, we are making Hospice happen ANNUAL REPORT 2017 At such a sad time you provide such a beautiful service. My cousin and I talked about how hard a job it must be, but then I realised you were there for people that needed you at their most vulnerable time. Thank you Totara Hospice for making my Uncle comfortable and for looking after our whānau. ~ Family member Contents Vision, Mission and Values 1 Chair and Chief Executive Report 2 Clinical Services Report 6 Board of Trustees 8 Strategic Leadership Team 9 Youth Ambassadors 12 Summary Financial Statements 13 Notes to the Financial Statements 17 Auditor’s Report 19 Hospice Supporters 20 OUR VISION: Honour living, dignifyVision, dying Mission, Values & Operating Purpose OUR MISSION: Provide leading edge hospice palliative care services to individuals and their families, care networks and communities OUR VALUES: Pride & Passion Professionalism Partnership & Inclusion Compassion & Respect Innovation & Collaboration OUR OPERATING PURPOSE: Operate a sustainable, high quality, high touch, outcomes based Hospice for the diverse communities of South and South East Auckland Compassion & Respect Treating others with care, maintaining dignity. Demonstrating kindness and concern for the situation and circumstances of others Partnership & Inclusion Working alongside and with others. Treating Innovation & people with respect and dignity: valuing Collaboration individual and Constantly seeking new cultural differences ideas and striving for and diversity better solutions. Achieving success by our working together and valuing each other’s skills and contributions values Professionalism Acting with integrity and embracing the highest Pride & Passion ethical standards Stewardship of our vision and values and advocacy for our cause Compassionate and informed communities that can offer and receive support around death and dying make stronger communities overall. Totara Hospice South Auckland Board Chair Barbara Astill (L) and Totara Hospice CE Tina McCafferty CHAIR & CHIEF EXECUTIVE REPORT Kia ora tātou, Kia Orana, Talofa Lava, Malo e lelei, Fakaalofa Lahi Atu, Ni sa Bula Vinaka, Namaste, Ní hăo, Hola, Warm Greetings to All. n behalf of the Board of Trustees and Senior Leadership We are delighted that we are increasingly able to demonstrate Team of Totara Hospice South Auckland, it is our how users of hospice services reflect the rich diversity of our pleasure to provide this operating report for the 2016-17 wider community, 63% of all patients referred identified with Obusiness year. cultures other than NZ Pakeha. A focus for 2017-18 and beyond will be to ensure that we continue to best meet the High quality, outcomes based hospice services for the diverse needs of diverse groups within our community of service. communities of South and South East Auckland were provided at record levels this year. At the frontline it was our privilege Support to the frontline was again provided by retail, to be able to support over 1200 patients and their whānau/ fundraising, people and culture and business services. loved ones. Delivered by our integrated team of doctors, Their efforts to raise the bar on our overall efficiency and nurses, allied health practitioners and psychosocial support effectiveness and raise enough funds for our core services was staff, services took the form of 2509 bed days, over 11,000 significant. We are very proud of the standards of business hospice at home visits and over 800 Day Hospice attendees support delivered. and approximately 350 Out Patient appointments. All our clinical services are supported by our dedicated volunteers. At an organisational level we continued to build on the refreshed strategy, culture and values that we set out in 2015 We recognise that hospice being relevant to all people is by investing in our people; recognising them as being central fundamental to our philosophy. Compassionate and informed to our success. We are working through a review of volunteer communities that can offer and receive support around death services to ensure that we continue to engage and value our and dying make stronger communities overall. volunteers in meaningful ways. Across the organisation we 2 TOTARA HOSPICE SOUTH AUCKLAND // ANNUAL REPORT 2017 We continued to articulate and evidence that we are nonetheless grossly underfunded comparative to other like Hospices and in the context of the needs of our population. Totara Hospice South Auckland Board Chair Barbara Astill (L) and Totara Hospice CE Tina McCafferty have encouraged and enabled shared learning approaches and continued to participate at every level of the organisation in peer network support and supervision. As a result we are efficiency and effectiveness drives, providing creative and demonstrably building a positive reputation for the innovative solutions to the challenges we face, without performance levels of our teams and services and as a good compromising our care or service quality. organisation to work with and within. In closing we would like to recognise the skills and From a strategic perspective we continue to grow and evolve commitment of the wider Board of Trustees, Senior Leadership in our approach to what we do, measuring the difference we Team and all of our staff and volunteers. Without you, we make, the outlook we hold and the connections we nurture. would not be the Hospice that we are. Special thanks to Our adoption of a more overt practice of strategic assessment retiring trustees David Jones and Ann Linton for their many has proved vital. Our prediction that the need for a defined years of excellent contributions to our work; always reminding ‘next level’ of operations for the Hospice sector has emerged us that everything we do is for our patients and their loved as accurate. ones. Acknowledgement also to Jessie Mravicich who earlier this year, after over a decade of service handed over the We continue to work with our District Health Board on shared Director Of Nursing baton to Dr Kathy Peri. goals for our shared population and to make our case for fair funding. Across 2016-17 although we were appreciative of We also wish to thank the many organisations, business DHB funding equating to approximately 60% of our total costs, supporters, Trusts, Foundations and individuals from within we continued to articulate and evidence that we are our community and wider networks who donate time, nonetheless grossly underfunded comparative to other like resources and funds to supporting our work to ensure our Hospices and in the context of the needs of our population. sustainability. Thank you for continuing to make hospice In the coming years as costs continue to grow annually for all happen for South and South East Auckland. businesses our level of funding shows no signs of material change. The ratio of funding to funds required will again decrease. Our continued dialogue with the DHB is key to Barbara Astill - Board Chair Tina McCafferty - CE finding the solution. In the meantime our people have TOTARA HOSPICE SOUTH AUCKLAND // ANNUAL REPORT 2017 3 WHO WE ARE ENGAGING WITH Snapshot - Engagement by Age Group 4% 32% 25% 26% 12% 1% <25 25-44 45-64 65-74 75-84 85+ MIDDLE EASTERN/AFRICAN 1% OTHER 2% EUROPEAN 7% Snapshot - Referrals by Ethnicity ASIAN 10% N PAKEHA 37% PASIFIKA 23% MAORI 20% 4 TOTARA HOSPICE SOUTH AUCKLAND // ANNUAL REPORT 2017 Snapshot - Part of the team – our Volunteers Totara Hospice currently has In a financial year, Totara 628 volunteers working Hospice’s volunteer workforce across the organisation in a contributes approximately variety of roles. 180,000 hours to the work of 628 Totara Hospice. 180,000 If we were to pay in labour what their volunteering provides, we would have additional operating expenses $4m in excess of $4million per year. You get 110% back, because the sense of satisfaction and usefulness coming out of being able to do something constructive and productive is overwhelmingly satisfying. If you’re prepared to give the gift of your time then it is worth gold… Totara Hospice volunteer Chris Ridley I love the opportunity to make a difference in others’ lives. It’s sort of an extension of my nursing I think – I love the caring, I love the people, I like the whole concept of hospice – I think it’s amazing what they do for the dying, and the living. Totara Hospice volunteer Christine Ferguson TOTARA HOSPICE SOUTH AUCKLAND // ANNUAL REPORT 2017 5 CLINICAL SERVICES REPORT Key clinical advancements. The Minister for Health released his system level Action Plan for palliative care improvements across NZ and in the same year provided the Auckland region with an opportunity to respond to a call for innovative business proposals to further the reach of palliative care. This has resulted in thePalliative Outcomes Initiative (Poi); a collaboration between six hospices and three DHBs across the Auckland metro that seeks to attain aconsistent approach to palliative need identification and needs assessment across the region, supported by local level work programmes that build capacity and capability and supports bettercollaboration in care across community and specialist services providers. Poi provides us with an excellent opportunity to further our use of outcomes data to demonstrate service impact at personal and population health levels. We have enhanced our clinical integration approach and our role as coaches and consultants to colleagues across the health system. These are vital components of our operating model and ongoing success. Our model of care continues to evolve incrementally across our range of services. It is outcomes focused and ensures we deliver to our purpose and this year resulted in a full outpatient service and reviewed suite of day hospice programmes; all supported by our volunteers. Across our professional clinical teams there has been an increasing focus on clinical education, quality and Having only been here governance. This supports a fit for purpose workforce a few months I have enjoyed an extremely busy, challenging and also for a changing service landscape.
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